OFAC Purges 84 Entries From the SDN List: What Bessent's Doctrine Shift Means for Banks and Cross-Border Corridors
OFAC Purges 84 Entries From the SDN List: What Bessent's Doctrine Shift Means for Banks and Cross-Border Corridors The Doctrine Changed Before the List Did On July 27, 2026, OFAC removed 84 individuals and entities from its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, and updated identifying data on 22 additional entries. The headline number is the second-largest single-action delisting in at least a decade. What drove the coverage, however, was the wrong question.
The right question is not how many names came off. It is what criterion now governs whether a name stays on, because that criterion is new, and its consequences for financial institutions run wider than any single tranc…
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